Cannes Film Festival 2024: Indian directors Payal Kapadia and Sandhya Suri’s film to be screened

Cannes Film Festival has announced the spectacular lineup of films for this year. Indian film directors Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine As Light’ and Sandhya Suri’s ‘Santosh’ have bagged the honour of being selected to be screened at the prestigious film festival. The organisers shared a list of films from across the globe which will be screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

About Payal Kapadia’s film

After her documentary ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’, which won the ‘Golden Eye’ award at the French film festival in 2021, Kapadia is back with her fiction debut, ‘All We Imagine As Light’ which will screen In Competition. The film follows the story of two nurses from Kerala who work in Mumbai. The film is an Indo-French co-production.

Kapadia's film will be presented under the segment alongside 19 highly anticipated titles, including ‘Kinds of Kindness’ by Yorgos Lanthimos, ‘Megalopolis’ by Francis Ford Coppola, ‘Oh Canada’ by Paul Scrader, ‘Bird’ by Andrea Arnold, ‘The Shrouds’ by David Cronenberg, and ‘Anora’ by Sean Baker.

About Sandhya Suri’s film

Meanwhile, Sandhya Suri’s film ‘Santosh’ will be screened in Un Certain Regard section at the Festival. Suri’s neo-noir narrative feature film is set in the hinterlands of Northern India. Shahana Goswami is the lead actor in the film backed by British Film Institude, BBC Film, Zdf/Arte and Cnc.

About Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film lineup was unveiled today by the Festival chief Thierry Fremaux and President Iris Knobloch at the UGC Normandie theatre in Paris. Quentin Dupieux's ‘The Second Act’ is the opening film at the 77th edition.

The Cannes Film Festival will be held between May 14-25. The closing ceremony, during which the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, will be awarded to one of the films in competition, will be broadcast in France on France Télévisions and streamed on Brut.

The last Indian film to compete for the coveted Palme d'Or award was legendary filmmaker Mrinal Sen's ‘Kharij’ in 1983. Before that, films like M. S. Sathyu's ‘Garm Hava’ (1974), Satyajit Ray's ‘Parash Pathar’ (1958), Raj Kapoor's ‘Awaara’ (1953), V Shantaram's ‘Amar Bhoopali’ (1952) and Chetan Anand's ‘Neecha Nagar’ (1946) were selected for Cannes' Competition segment.

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